are there of a chapter of a book. Even though that will come months or years later. Making the final work, the essay I hope will be printed in book form, is the final stage of the sequencing. It needs six months. I have the prints laid out and first think in the morning, before i shower, I look at the photographs and go, ‘Oh, this one goes there, this one there’, and move things around. This is the definitive writing of the essay. I’m too old now to think that people see the same thing that I do. This is the great thing about photography.
It’s so enriching. You show the same photograph to three different people and get three completely different responses. And they are all totally different from your own. But more than anything I make sure people get my point. Which is why words are sometimes necessary, and why all my books have words. They may only be in diary form, just simple writing, but I am saying: read my pictures the way you want to - individually, collectively - that’s fine; read them the opposite of the way I intended, that’s fine too. But make sure you get my point!